Construction News
- Shanghai News
Date: 12-Jan-2007 Sources: (Xinhua Online)
Shanghai has abandoned its plan to build a 200-meter-tall Ferris wheel, which would have been the world's tallest upon completion, government officials said Thursday.
Shanghai officials and experts cancelled the plan after discussions and decided to build a 100-meter tall skyscraper on the land earmarked for the wheel, officials said.
The Ferris wheel project envisaged a wheel with a diameter of 170 meters, supported by two 200-meter-long pylons, and with a commercial plaza at its base.
The wheel would have contained 36 cabins capable of accommodating 1,100 tourists a time.
The cost of the wheel was estimated at between 600 million yuan (77million U.S. dollars) and 800 million yuan (103 million dollars).
Currently, the world's highest Ferris wheel on record is the London Eye in Britain. Completed in 1999, it is 135 meters tall.
The record, however, will be challenged by a 160-meter-tall Ferris wheel in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, which began to receive travelers last May.
The developer of the wheel said application procedures for an entry in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's tallest wheel is underway.
The wheel is 25 meters higher than the London Eye on the south bank of the River Thames, and it is also 25 meters longer in diameter than its British peer.
With a total investment of 57 million yuan (7.1 million U.S. dollars), the wheel, or the Star of Nanchang, is decorated with 6,500-meter-long lights that produce a magnificent scenery at night.
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